Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make a cake Food of the Gods with walnuts? This cake is made much easier than it seems at first glance. First, prepare all the necessary ingredients for the dough. Take the flour of the highest grade. The eggs are large and selected. Sour cream with a fat content of 20%. Taking into account the condensed milk in the cream, you can adjust the amount of sugar to your liking.
Step 2:
Mix sour cream and soda. Leave on for 10 minutes until bubbles appear. Sour cream will greatly liquefy, and from thick it will become fluid. Sour cream can be replaced with fatty kefir.
Step 3:
Pre-wash the walnuts, then pierce them in a dry frying pan and grind them into fine crumbs in a blender.
Step 4:
Beat the eggs with sugar into a fluffy foam. The airiness of your pie depends on how you beat the eggs. You can not beat the mass straight white and to a density - the protein will lose the air bubbles that raise the dough on a par with soda.
Step 5:
Add sour cream with soda to the eggs and whisk again.
Step 6:
Sift the flour and pour parts into the egg mixture, beating each time with a mixer until smooth.
Step 7:
Flour may need more or less. Focus on the consistency. The dough should be thick, viscous.
Step 8:
Add walnuts and mix.
Step 9:
Cover the baking dish (Ø 20-22 cm) with parchment and grease with butter. Lay out the dough and smooth it out. Place in preheated to 180 ° C for 35-40 minutes. Do not open the door for the first 25-30 minutes.
Step 10:
Now prepare the cream. Butter should be at room temperature, so take it out of the refrigerator in advance. It is very important to choose high-quality condensed milk. A lot of marriage is being sold now. Real condensed milk should be without milk fat substitutes, made from natural products, thick. The fat content of this condensed milk is 8.5%.
Step 11:
Beat the soft butter until fluffy. Without ceasing to beat, gradually add condensed milk.
Step 12:
At the end, pour in the cocoa and whisk again until smooth.
Step 13:
The cream should be lush, but dense enough, not flowing.
Step 14:
Transfer the finished cake to the grill and cool. Then cut lengthwise into two cakes, the lower one is thinner - this will be the basis for the cake, the second one is thicker.
Step 15:
Smear a thinner sponge cake with part of the cream.
Step 16:
Crumble the remaining cake into small pieces with your hands. Combine the crumbled sponge cake with the remaining cream in the bowl and mix.
Step 17:
Then put a slide on the whole cake covered with cream.
Step 18:
If desired, you can pour icing on the cake. You can use ready-made store toppings or make the glaze yourself.
Step 19:
Break the chocolate into pieces, combine with cream and, stirring, melt over low heat until smooth.
Step 20:
Pour the chocolate icing over the cake. For convenience, I poured the glaze into a disposable pastry bag and cut off the tip. Put the cake in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.
Step 21:
Before serving, cut the cake into pieces, garnish with mint and serve to the table. Bon appetit!
Is it possible to replace baking powder with soda, how to add them correctly so that the baking is lush, how to avoid an unpleasant soda taste and much more, read the article "Baking powder or baking soda - which is better?"
Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Buttermilk - 36 kcal/100g
- Cream of 20 % fat content - 300 kcal/100g
- Cream of 10% fat content - 120 kcal/100g
- Cream - 300 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 30% fat content - 340 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 25% fat content - 284 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 20 % fat content - 210 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115 kcal/100g
- Sour cream - 210 kcal/100g
- Chicken egg - 157 kcal/100g
- Egg white - 45 kcal/100g
- Egg powder - 542 kcal/100g
- Egg yolk - 352 kcal/100g
- Ostrich egg - 118 kcal/100g
- Walnuts - 650 kcal/100g
- Black Walnut English Walnut - 628 kcal/100g
- Black Persian Walnut - 651 kcal/100g
- Walnut oil - 925 kcal/100g
- Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333 kcal/100g
- Whole durum wheat flour, universal - 364 kcal/100g
- Flour krupchatka - 348 kcal/100g
- Flour - 325 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Condensed milk with sugar - 324 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Amateur unsalted butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted peasant butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Peasant salted butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Melted butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Cocoa powder - 374 kcal/100g
- Chocolate 70 % - 539 kcal/100g
- Dark chocolate - 539 kcal/100g
- Baking soda - 0 kcal/100g